trouble spot

Example Sentences

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Even before the latest release of the consumer-price index, inflation expectations had been climbing, a potential trouble spot in a market where stocks have largely shrugged off the U.S.-Iran conflict and the resulting energy shock.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

The economy is a particular trouble spot for the billionaire property developer.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

There is not the capacity to move troops around the country to concentrate them in the latest trouble spot.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2023

It’s delayed mainly by unanticipated wetland soil, forcing builders to design a long-span bridge over the trouble spot.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

He wanted to discuss a trouble spot of increasing concern to the United States: a mountainous, heavily forested country winding more than a thousand miles along the coast of Southeast Asia.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin